Fairly sure it was put out he could go early on, before we knew Ryan was off .Have read stokes is transfer listed, not sure how true
Robins said the lb had agreed terms and will start training with us, wonder if it means it's waiting for stokes to find somewhere?
Good character Stokes and think the club means something to him, giving him his chance at this level. Been a good servant.
Good character Stokes and think the club means something to him, giving him his chance at this level. Been a good servant.
And one of the few leaders we have on the pitch. Never shy to have a word with the ref or his team mates when needed.Good character Stokes and think the club means something to him, giving him his chance at this level. Been a good servant.
Could be another U23s type player?
Stokes as a 2nd choice LB isn’t too bad, but with Brown’s injury, there’s a risk Stokes could end up playing more games. Fair play for Robins being ambitious with his recruitment, it does seem like he’s got the full backing of the board and is being left to his own devices.
Good character Stokes and think the club means something to him, giving him his chance at this level. Been a good servant.
I know he’s had an injury but he was great when he first joined us in league one and was very solid last season. I can’t understand anyone wanting to replace him for this season at least.
Definitely didn't create enough and it was further exposed with our 2 DMs last year. Very little down the left and while Grimmer is a willing runner his passing/crossing was poor. It's a big ask for fullbacks at this level in a 4-4-2 and with our shape for much of last year. You overlap your winger and then you've got no pass inside because the central midfield are on the defence's toes still, so you've got 2 strikers to aim for between a back 4 plus an opposition midfield with no-one to mark, or try and beat a man yourself, or option 3, roll it back to Jodi Jones and hope he can pop it in the top corner from 20 yards.I like both Stokes and Grimmer but I don't think we can argue with Robins when he said that we didn't create enough on the overlap from either side of the pitch last season
Yes you have that nailed - we were going through a wobble and he stepped up and was much more solid in those last 5 matches - good servant - all footballers loose their "fitness" as they get older - i wish him the bestAnd was really good in last few weeks of the season. His return to the First XI made us demonstrably stronger. Played really well in all three play-off games.
he's only 27Yes you have that nailed - we were going through a wobble and he stepped up and was much more solid in those last 5 matches - good servant - all footballers loose their "fitness" as they get older - i wish him the best
he's only 27
Healthy competitionStokes is okay but expendable if we want to be serious contenders next season we need to improve Stokesy is good in division 2 and wouldn’t let you down in division 1 but we need better. Incidently talk of another LB joining Monday, where does Junior Brown fit in then ?
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